we ask those questions now or michael mukasey who served as president george w. bush's attorney general and juliette kayyem, former assistant secretary in the department of homeland security during the obama administration. she's now at harvard's kennedy school of government. michael mukasey, did he accomplish what he needed to last night? >> not as far as i saw. i think if the goal was to provide reassurance to the american people that he's got a plan, i don't see a plan. i see more of the same which has not succeeded. there are plans out there. he didn't talk about any of them. there is legislation pending that would allow an enhancement and a safeguarding of our intelligence-gathering capability, he didn't talk about that. there are plans to position u.s. troops, not large numbers, but u.s. troops so as to attack i.s.i.s. where it lives. there are plans to deal with the possibility of a safety zone in syria so as to stop the exit of refugees, he didn't talk about that either. it was a lot more of the same and a lot of caution to the american people about not h